The Library
Incentive magnitude effects in experimental games : bigger is not necessarily better
Tools
Tools
Tools
Pulford, Briony, Colman, Andrew and Loomes, Graham (2018) Incentive magnitude effects in experimental games : bigger is not necessarily better. Games , 9 (1). 4. doi:10.3390/g9010004
|
PDF
WRAP-incentive-magnitude-effects-games-bigger-Loomes-2018.pdf - Published Version - Requires a PDF viewer. Available under License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Download (1029Kb) | Preview |
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/g9010004
Abstract
In experimental games, task-related incentives are payments to experimental subjects that vary according to their strategy choices and the consequent outcomes of the games. Limited evidence exists regarding incentive magnitude effects in experimental games. We examined one-off strategy choices and self-reported reasons for choices in eight 3 × 3 and four 4 × 4 normal-form games under task-related incentives of conventional magnitude and compared them with choices and reasons in the same games under incentives five times as large. Both strategy choices and self-reported reasons for choices were almost indistinguishable between the two conditions. These results are in line with earlier findings on individual decision making and with a parametric model, in which the incentive elasticity of effort is very small when compared with other factors, such as the complexity of the decision problem.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory | |||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | |||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Game theory, Incentive (Psychology), Experimental economics, Factors of production, Decision making | |||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Games | |||||||||
| Publisher: | M D P I AG | |||||||||
| ISSN: | 2073-4336 | |||||||||
| Official Date: | 18 January 2018 | |||||||||
| Dates: |
|
|||||||||
| Volume: | 9 | |||||||||
| Number: | 1 | |||||||||
| Article Number: | 4 | |||||||||
| DOI: | 10.3390/g9010004 | |||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | |||||||||
| RIOXX Funder/Project Grant: |
|
Request changes or add full text files to a record
Repository staff actions (login required)
 |
View Item |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year
